• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.737-745
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• 2008

In this paper, a novel neighborhood metric of histogram equalization (HE) algorithm for contrast enhancement is presented. We present a refinement of HE using neighborhood metrics with a general framework which orders pixels based on a sequence of sorting functions which uses both global and local information to remap the image greylevels. We tested a novel sorting key with the suggestion of using the original image greylevel as the primary key and a novel neighborhood distinction metric as the secondary key, and compared HE using proposed distinction metric and other HE methods such as global histogram equalization (GHE), HE using voting metric and HE using contrast difference metric. We found that our method can preserve advantages of other metrics, while reducing drawbacks of them and avoiding undesirable over-enhancement that can occur with local histogram equalization (LHE) and other methods.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1233-1243
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• 2015

The contrast enhancement is great challenge in the image processing when images are suffering from poor contrast problem. Therefore, in order to overcome this problem an automatic method is proposed for contrast enhancement of natural color images. The proposed method consist of two stages: in first stage lightness component in YIQ color space is normalized by sigmoid function after the adaptive histogram equalization is applied on Y component and in second stage automatic color contrast enhancement algorithm is applied on output of the first stage. The proposed algorithm is tested on different NASA color images, hyperspectral color images and other types of natural color images. The performance of proposed algorithm is evaluated and compared with the other existing contrast enhancement algorithms in terms of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor. The higher values of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor imply that the visual quality of the enhanced image is good. Simulation results demonstrate that proposed algorithm provides higher values of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor as compared to other existing contrast enhancement algorithms. The proposed algorithm also provides better visual enhancement results as compared with the other existing contrast enhancement algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.4043-4064
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• 2021

Night-time image quality evaluation is an urgent requirement in visual inspection. The lighting environment of night-time results in low brightness, low contrast, loss of detailed information, and colour dissonance of image, which remains a daunting task of delicately evaluating the image quality at night. A new blind quality assessment metric is presented for realistic night-time scenario through a comprehensive consideration of contrast, texture, and colour in this article. To be specific, image blocks' color-gray-difference (CGD) histogram that represents contrast features is computed at first. Next, texture features that are measured by the mean subtracted contrast normalized (MSCN)-weighted local binary pattern (LBP) histogram are calculated. Then statistical features in Lαβ colour space are detected. Finally, the quality prediction model is conducted by the support vector regression (SVR) based on extracted contrast, texture, and colour features. Experiments conducted on NNID, CCRIQ, LIVE-CH, and CID2013 databases indicate that the proposed metric is superior to the compared BIQA metrics.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.527-540
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to propose contrast metric which is based on the human visual perception and thus it can be used to improve the quality of digital images in many applications. Methods: Previous literatures are surveyed, and then the proposed method is modeled based on Human Visual System(HVS) such as multiscale property of the contrast sensitivity function (CSF), contrast constancy property (suprathreshold), color channel property. Furthermore, experiments using digital images are shown to prove the effectiveness of the method. Results: The results of this study are as follows; regarding the proposed contrast measure of complex images, it was found by experiments that HVS follows relatively well compared to the previous contrast measurement. Conclusion: This study shows the effectiveness on how to measure the contrast of complex images which follows human perception better than other methods.

• 감성과학
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2017

다양한 이미지 샘플의 Eye test를 바탕으로 기술적인 화질 지표 조절을 통하여 감성 화질을 최적화 시키는 방법이 소개된다. 여러 가지 이미지 콘텐츠의 다양한 이미지에 대하여, 콘트라스트, 명도, 채도 화질 지표 톤 커브를 사용하여 평가가 수행 되었다. 이미지 화질 향상에 기여하는 우선순위는 명암, 채도 및 밝기 순으로 분석 되었다. 이미지 감성 화질 측정치의 기술적인 화질 지표 변화에 따른 기울기의 공통점을 살펴본 결과, 거의 0, 중간 그리고 최대 기울기의 영역으로 구성된 함수 형태로 모델링을 할 경우, 기존의 역 U 형태의 성질 뿐 아니라 log 또는 포화 형태의 감성 화질 변화까지 분석 가능함을 알 수 있었다. 단일 및 복수의 화질 지표의 경우에 대하여도 화질 개선 방안이 모색되었으며, 기존 및 본 논문에서 분석된 결과를 위한 새로운 함수가 소개 되었다. 복수의 통합적 이미지 화질 지표를 통하여 향상 시킬 경우 오직 몇몇 한정된 지표 제어의 경우에만 실현 가능하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 화질 향상 방법은 영상 콘텐츠에 따라 크게 차이가 없음을 알 수 있었다.

• 호남수학학술지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.337-357
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• 2016

The notion of weak contraction in intuitionistic fuzzy metric space is well known and its study is well entrenched in the literature. This paper introduces the notion of (${\psi},{\alpha},{\beta}$)-weak contraction in intuitionistic fuzzy metric space. In this contrast, we prove certain coincidence point results in partially ordered intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces for functions which satisfy a certain inequality involving three control functions. In the course of investigation, we found that by imposing some additional conditions on the mappings, coincidence point turns out to be a fixed point. Moreover, we establish a theorem as an application of our results.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.71-79
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• 1987

The linear and quadratic log contrast model with mixtures on the strictly positive simplex, $$ x_{q-1} = {(x_1, \cdots, x_q):\sum x_, = 1 and \delta \leq \frac{x_i}{x_j} \leq \frac{1}{\delta} for all i,j},$$ are considered. Using the invariance arguments, symmetric D-optimal designs are investigated. The class of symmetric D-optimal designs for the linear log contrasts model is given. Any D-optimal design for the quadratic log contrast model is shown to metric D-optimal designs for q=3 and 4 cases are given.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.413-424
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• 2011

A variety of different metrics has been introduced to measure the similarity of two given sequences. These widely used metrics are ranging from spell correctors and categorizers to new sequence mining applications. Different metrics consider different aspects of sequences, but the essence of any sequence is extracted from the ordering of its elements. In this paper, we propose a novel sequence similarity measure that is based on all ordered pairs of one sequence and where a Hasse diagram is built in the other sequence. In contrast with existing approaches, the idea behind the proposed sequence similarity metric is to extract all ordering features to capture sequence properties. We designed a clustering problem to evaluate our sequence similarity metric. Experimental results showed the superiority of our proposed sequence similarity metric in maximizing the purity of clustering compared to metrics such as d2, Smith-Waterman, Levenshtein, and Needleman-Wunsch. The limitation of those methods originates from some neglected sequence features, which are considered in our proposed sequence similarity metric.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.433-444
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• 2024

Our study explores the connection between the Pythagorean theorem and the Fixed-point theorem in metric spaces. Both of which center around the concepts of distance transformations and point relationships. The Pythagorean theorem deals with right triangles in Euclidean space, emphasizing distances between points. In contrast, fixed-point theorems pertain to the points that remain unchanged under specific transformations thereby preserving distances. The article delves into the intrinsic correlation between these concepts and presents a novel study in Euclidean metric spaces, examining the relationship between contraction mapping and Pythagorean Right Triangles. Practical applications are also discussed particularly in the context of image compression. Here, the integration of the Pythagorean right triangle paradigm with contraction mappings results in efficient data representation and the preservation of visual data relation-ships. This illustrates the practical utility of seemingly abstract theories in addressing real-world challenges.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권9호
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• pp.992-1004
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• 2017

이미지 품질을 정확히 평가하기 위해 이미지 평가 도구는 인간 시각 시스템을 반영해야 한다. 즉, 이미지의 구조, 색, 명암 비 등 여러 가지 요소들을 고려하여 평가해야 한다. 또한 스마트 폰과 같은 모바일 임베디드 기기의 폭넓은 사용에 따라 빠른 수행 속도를 갖는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 인간 시각 만족과 빠른 계산속도 달성을 동시에 얻기 위하여 색 유사도, 변화율 유사도, 위상 유사도를 상승적으로 결합하였고 최적화된 이미지 풀링 및 양자화 기반으로 설계하였다. 제안하는 기법은 기존에 존재하는 13개의 기법과 비교하였고 네 가지 검증 도구를 사용하여 성능을 검증하였다. 실험 결과 세 검증 도구에서 가장 우수한 성능을 보였고 한 검증 도구에서 기존 최고 기법인 VSI에 이어 두 번째로 좋은 성능을 보였으며 실행 속도는 VSI에 대해 평균 약 20% 개선된 결과를 얻었다. 또한 기존의 기법들 보다 더 인간 시각 시스템과 제안 기법의 품질 평가 값의 연관성이 크게 존재함을 확인하였다.